WoRMS taxon details
Megalocranchia maxima Pfeffer, 1884
341821 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:341821)
accepted
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Pfeffer G. 1884. Die Cephalopoden des Hamburger Naturhistorischen Museums. <i>Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften, Hamburg</i>, 8(1): 1-30., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/70869
page(s): 24 [details]
page(s): 24 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Megalocranchia maxima Pfeffer, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=341821 on 2025-04-06
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Nomenclature
original description
Pfeffer G. 1884. Die Cephalopoden des Hamburger Naturhistorischen Museums. <i>Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften, Hamburg</i>, 8(1): 1-30., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/70869
page(s): 24 [details]
basis of record Roper, C. F. E.; Jereb, P. (2010). Family Cranchiidae. <em>In: P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 2. Myopsid and Oegopsid Squids. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 2. Rome, FAO.</em> pp. 148-178., available online at http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/i1920e/i1920e.pdf
page(s): 171 [details]
page(s): 24 [details]
basis of record Roper, C. F. E.; Jereb, P. (2010). Family Cranchiidae. <em>In: P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 2. Myopsid and Oegopsid Squids. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 2. Rome, FAO.</em> pp. 148-178., available online at http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/i1920e/i1920e.pdf
page(s): 171 [details]
Identification resource
identification resource
Lu, C.C. & Chung, W.S. (2017). <em>Guide to the cephalopods of Taiwan</em>. National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan, 560 pp. ISBN 978-986-05-2569-4.
page(s): 412 [details]
page(s): 412 [details]
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]
additional source Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
